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Define Immunology
✓ The science of self (well ordered host) and non-self
(pathogens/disordered self) discrimination
Define physiologic responses of the immune system
✓ Proper self recognition
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✓ Effective immune responses
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✓ Complete elimination
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✓ Long lasting remembrance
Define pathological responses of the immune system
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✓ Hyperactivity
✓ -autoimmunity
✓ -hypersensitivity
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✓ Hypoactivity
✓ -immune deficiencies
✓ -malignancies
✓ -infections
Describe possible things that can be considered "non-self"
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✓ Obligatory intra/extracellular microbes
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✓ Facultative intracellular microbes
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✓ Opportunistic microbes
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✓ Transformed/mutated cells
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✓ Diseased cells
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✓ Aged/dead cells
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✓ Infected/toxic cells
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✓ Mismatched transplanted cells
Define an epitope
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✓ The part of the antigen that is specifically recognized by antibodies
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✓ Also called an antigenic determinant ---meaning antibodies interaction
with the antigen/epitope will determine the immune response
What is the difference between an antigen and immunogen?
✓ Both are types of epitopes
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✓ Antigen
✓ -Provokes weak/no immune response
✓ -Can react with immune response products
✓ -produces weak or no memory
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✓ Immunogen
✓ -Provokes strong immune response
✓ -can react with immune response product
✓ -produces long-lasting memory
What is a hapten?
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